MADRID: Staff at El Pais, one of Spain’s most popular newspapers, went on strike yesterday over management plans to slash the workforce in...
MADRID: Staff at El Pais, one of Spain’s most popular newspapers, went on strike yesterday over management plans to slash the workforce in...
JOHANNESBURG: Photographs suggesting that South African police planted weapons on the bodies of workers shot dead by police at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine...
SYDNEY: Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday demanded that Pakistan investigate and explain the brutal killing of 21,000 Australian sheep in Karachi, a slaughter...
PRAGUE: Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was likely to stay in power after rebel lawmakers threatening to topple his government over a tax...
LONDON: A British lawmaker skipped parliament yesterday to take part in a reality television show in the Australian jungle, where contestants regularly eat...
MEAUX, France: A near-complete skeleton of a mammoth which lived between 200,000 and 500,000 years ago has been found near Paris, the French...
Syrians inspecting the site of an explosion in the district of Waroud, in the western Damascus suburb of Qudsaya, yesterday. JEDDAH/AMMAN: Britain floated...
JEDDAH: British Prime Minister David Cameron met the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and top...
BEIRUT: Syrian authorities have closed several Damascus offices of Hamas amid a deepening rift with the Palestinian Islamist movement they had long supported,...
DUBAI: Bahraini police have arrested four suspects in connection with a wave of bombings that killed two Asian expatriates in the capital Manama,...
CAIRO: An Egyptian school teacher received a six-month suspended jail sentence yesterday for cutting the hair of two 12-year-old girl pupils who were...
Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani presents the prize to a winner of the Arabic cartoon contest which was held...
DOHA: The head of Syria’s main opposition group abroad said yesterday that it should retain a “central role” in any unified front against...
WASHINGTON: Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have requested the sale of up to $7.6bn in Lockheed Martin Corp missile-defence systems to counter...
The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani with UK’s Secretary of State for Middle...
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari with the Minister of Justice H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanem at the Doha International Airport yesterday....
The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Masoud Barzani, at the Emiri...
DOHA: Parking fees in public places are not likely to be imposed until a proper public transport system is in place in the...
